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Flying over the Rocky Mountains and descending into Denver International Airport can sometimes be a bumpy affair. Here is a good reason why. This developing thunderstorm was forming over Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park when this image was recently made. Sometimes growing upward to 60,000 feet, these monsters can smite little airplanes and are wisely avoided by the bigger ones as well.

Thunderstorms result from the rapid upward movement of warm, moist air and occur inside warm, moist air masses and fronts. As warm, moist air moves upward, it cools, condenses, and forms cumulonimbus clouds that can reach heights of over 12 miles. As the rising air reaches its dew point, water droplets and ice form and begin to fall through the clouds towards the Earth's surface. As the droplets fall, they collide with other droplets and grow larger. The falling droplets create a downdraft of cold air and moisture that spreads out at the Earth's surface, causing the associated...

Photography is all about using light to capture the emotion and beauty of a fleeting moment. For me, this adventure began with a single spring image using a small Kodak film camera of a freshly watered central Kansas ditch and has come full circle using modern digital techniques. My first camera was acquired by trading an ancient Royal typewriter to a fellow college student who was desperate to finish a term paper. It was a long time ago and that camera was my passport to an art that has fascinated me ever since. I owned and operated a professional studio in central Kansas for 20 years and moved to Colorado in 1994. Part of the studio's early success came from creating outdoor portraiture using controlled lighting...